The inscription was meant to be from 1 Corinthians 13. It's a common wedding scripture indicating that "love bears all things". That is to say (paraphrasing, of course), "If you're going to love someone, you're going to have to deal with all their crap." To "bare" all things would mean to uncover all things...which, might also involve dealing with someone else's...uh, "issues", I suppose.

Probably about a million people are going to share this information, but just in case they don't; for all of you who don't get it, it is a homophone mix-up. It is supposed to be a bible verse, "Love bears all things, believes, all things, hopes all things, endures all things..." but they wrote "bares" instead of "bears". Get it now?

I agree with all of you who said, or who are going to say, that the garish, goldish (silk?) ribbon smack up against a beige-y, thumb-printed fondant isn't precisely the best look for a wedding (or anywhere else, either, but that's behind the point).What freaks me are the happy couple on top, who look so anorexic and inhumanly proportioned. Who has legs almost 3X as long as their body??? (I mean besides that alien in Close Encounters of the Legs 3X Body Length movie.)It sends a message to young folks that if you want to be married, you must starve yourself, purge, and purge again--only to eat an ugly cake, but hey-you're married.

Aarghh, heading to the bunker with my bare bear. And something alcoholic as well, because I just caught myself trying to think of what the wedding dress and bridesmaids dresses would look like with that colour scheme...

@ Anonymous 11:53(who said)..."What, no one is going to comment on the classy aluminum foil covered cardboard rounds under each layer?":

Actually, I did see that, and was gonna say sumpin, but then I realized that at least it kind of *picks up* the silvery look of the groom's pants, and the Fancy Swirlies on the dress.........the only cheesier thing would've been to have the cake layers be actual cheese wheels. Preferably aged cheddar.

What made me laugh even more than the homophone on the cake was the May 19th anonymous comment which said: Bear means to hold a burden, or a large furry animal with sharp teeth." I seemed to have missed the comma and pictured someone struggling to carry a heavy and cumbersome animal that was trying to bite them.

I do believe that if you stood the cake topper next to the cake, it would be as tall as or taller than the actual cake--that is cringe-worthy in itself, but pales in comparison to the poor spelling, hideous color scheme and overall tackiness of the cake as a whole. And yet, the bride and groom allowed it to be displayed...*shudder*

WV: sheritt, as in "Someone call the sheritt, this cake is a crime against humanatees!" ;)

Well, since there was an actual Spaceship Earth (picture) yesterday, it seems only appropriate -- if that is a word that could begin to apply in this context -- that there should be a figurative one today.

I will not, however, bear -- that's e-a -- the burden of adding to it. Even if 1 Corinthians 13 is one of my favorite passages in the Bible.

(Am I the one who supposedly started the "Epcot"?...I didn't mean to....I was just trying to explain to the two people who said that they didn't understand.... I think more people have mentioned Epcot/bunker than commented on the original alleged Epcot. But, ya know, sorry if I contributed to that and upset anyone....)

Ah, Faith, Hope and Thrust has got to be my all-time favorite wreck. It's so great because other than the one tiny extra letter, it's a gorgeous cake. This one is pretty wrecky even without the spelling error.

Speaking as an amateur decorator who's come close to wreckage a few times, that "bares" actually looks as if it were re-written - at least the first two letters. I just have a vision of the wreckorator carefully printing "b - e - Nah, that looks wrong... b - a - YEAH!"

WV: reses - Maybe the wreckorator should've taken a reces and hunted up a copy of the Good Book? Or the order form?

I can't believe that's a professionally made wedding cake, even though I've seen cakes done by amateurs that can rival the best bakeries, and professional cakes that look like a kindergarten class got lost in the kitchen. I also wonder if that flesh tone was supposed to be a brighter peach or actual pink.

The fact that so many people don't get the cultural reference definitely shows the problem. There is more than one kind of illiteracy. Sigh.Well, at least they didn't go the cutesy route with the "love bears" and have a bear theme. I have seen that. This decorator probably still would have misspelled it.

WV: plingThe sound your bling should make if you drop it. If it doesn't, it's plastic flotsam.

Huh. I was so distracted by the aluminum foil and the color scheme (and running to the bunker) that I didn't look too carefully at the topper. I thought it was just the bride up there by herself. But, no, it's actually TWO people. I'm guessing it was for *ElasticWoman's first marriage, to *Plastic Guy.

Hey now, people let's be kind now, ok? For those of you who are commenting on the cake topper: please remember that cake toppers are generally purchased ahead of time by the bride and groom. And Cake Wrecks isn't about being mean and making fun of people who order cakes. No, Cake Wrecks is here for us to laugh at the wrecks that the wreakorators make of the cakes people order! Can you say schadenfreude? http://youtu.be/FftfTWgI6Y0 [warning: adult language]

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